Shortlisted for Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards
Longlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize
THRILLER OF THE YEAR in GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND DAILY EXPRESS
‘Totally addictive. Like Fight Club, only darker’ S.J. Watson
‘I loved this book. Dark and at times almost comical, a great blend of crime thriller and the darkest imaginable domestic noir’ Sarah Pinborough
Dark, deviant and disturbing domestic noir … one of the most entrancing, sophisticated and page-turning psychological thrillers of the year…
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One crossed wire, three dead bodies and six bottles of bleach…
Seth Beauman can’t sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she is talking to The Samaritans.
But a seemingly harmless, late-night hobby turns into something more for Seth and for Hadley, and soon their late-night talks are turning into day-time meet-ups. And then this dysfunctional love story turns into something altogether darker, when Seth brings Hadley home…
And someone is watching…
Dark, sexy, dangerous and wildly readable, Good Samaritans marks the scorching return of one of crime fiction’s most exceptional voices.
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‘So dark, so cool’ Lisa Howells, Heat Magazine
‘Will Carver’s invigoratingly nasty novel … is a bleak vision of life: not the whole truth of it, thank god, but true enough to impart to the reader the thrill of genuine discomfort, presented with the chilly conviction of Simenon’s most unflinching romans dues and just as horribly addictive’ Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph
‘Carver weaves these strands together for an unsettling but compelling mixture of the banal, the horrific and, at times, the near-comic, wrong-footing the reader at every turn’ Laura Wilson, Guardian
‘Must Read!’ Daily Express
‘Beautiful, gripping and disturbing in equal measure, a postcard from the razor’s edge of the connected world we live in’ Kevin Wignall
‘Possibly the most interesting and original writer in the crime-fiction genre, and I've loved his books for years. Good Samaritans is his best to date – dark, slick, gripping, and impossible to put down. You'll be sucked in from the first page’ Luca Veste
‘Oh My God, Good Samaritans is amazing. I’m a little in love with your writing Will Carver’ Helen FitzGerald, Author of The Cry
I cannot write this review. I mean for the first time, yes it is possible, but I am speechless. This book!!!
Whatever you do, go into the book blind. Honestly, you have to, the reading and all the OMG you will say is much better when you do not have a clue about the book! You do not want your journey spoiled!
Well…I say a journey. It is more like a rollercoaster where you cannot see the tracks anymore and you do not know if you are going to make it out alive! I mean the opening words to the book set you on the disaster ride.
The short chapters entice you, they make sure they devour you, it gets you hooked and addicted where you are just consumed by the book that you have to keep reading, you need that hit, you need the words. It becomes an obsession to finish the book, which as it turns out is a theme in the book, along with lust, darkness and well why do you think we need six bottles of bleach!
The one crossed wire is what sets this story off, Hadley wanting the Samaritans, and instead gets Seth. Seth is an insomniac and just wants to talk to someone, anyone. Next night she gets Ant, who does work at the Samaritans, someone who is worried about Hadley and the rest.
The writing is vivid, you can picture everything clearly and it is scary how the story unfolds. It is twisty, it is dark, it is bold and it is a book that you will not be able to forget anytime soon. I just can not tell you anything. Just
OMG
That is all I can say!
I know this is a short snappy review, bit like the chapters, but I feel if I say too many words I will say something I should not! All you need to know is I loved this messed up book, it is not an easy read but as I said it is addictive!
